Databases for Exercise Science
Best Bets
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPORTDiscus with Full Text |
The comprehensive international content of the database is drawn from websites, journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, etc. |
1900-present |
 |
| PubMed |
PubMed provides access to bibliographic information from more than 5,200 journals in the life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. |
1950-present |
|
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition |
Provides full text access to more than 540 scholarly journals and citations with abstracts to 800 other magazines and health care publications. |
1984-present |
|
| Physical Education Index |
Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. |
1970-present |
|
Also Useful
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
|
| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
|
| Biological Abstracts |
Bibliographic citations with abstracts derived from over 5,000 life sciences research journals published worldwide. |
1926-present |
|
| Credo Reference |
Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. |
2000-present |
|
| Health Source Consumer Edition |
Provides full text access to 80 consumer health magazines, over 1,000 health pamphlets, and 130 health-related reference books. |
1990-present |
|
| Kinesiology Publications (KinPubs) |
Master's and doctoral dissertations |
2003-present |
|
| Medline |
Via ISI Web of Knowledge...MEDLINE contains over 12 million records and indexes 3,500+ journals published internationally. |
1950-present |
|
| Primal Pictures |
Derived from real human data, this range of software provides thousands of 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations and much more. |
Current |
|
| ScienceDirect |
Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection (indexing for 1,300 more). |
1960s-present |
|
| Web of Science (ISI) |
Provides indexing for over 12,000 academic journals, proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions, from three databases: |
1898-present |
|
Even More
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newspaper Source Plus |
Newspaper Source Plus provides full text coverage for 730 national & international newspapers. |
2000-present |
|
